António Carlos Gomes Dias

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used stakeholder theory to explore how corporate governance characteristics influence corporate social responsibility disclosure in the context of a global financial crisis and found that larger boards will represent a broader diversity of stakeholders and will promote better monitoring, more assertive stakeholder management, greater transparency, and increased levels of CSRD.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the disclosure practices of 57 Portuguese companies of different sizes (small, medium, large) by means of thematic content analysis and an index of disclosure (calculated according to company type and stakeholder type) and analyze whether business characteristics influence CSR disclose strategies.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of the global financial crisis (GFC) on the level of corporate social responsibility disclosures (CSRD) in the annual report and/or CSR report of 36 major listed Portuguese companies in each of the years 2005, 2008 and 2011 was investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the influence of corporate governance characteristics on corporate sustainability performance, considering three dimensions of sustainability: economic, environmental and social, in the macroeconomic environment of the Iberian Peninsula.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data from 37 non-financial firms in the period between 2010 and 2015 to analyse the determinants of Portuguese firms' performance, showing that internal, external and institutional factors are important to explain the performance of firms listed in Euronext Lisbon.